Gregory's ServerIntroducing the first alpha release of Mastodon 3.11 for Workgroups!
Available for Windows 95 :BlobhajShock:
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Q: is it open source? (Seriously this computer has no USB or anything so I will open source it once in better shape as getting the code out is a pain) @maartje that's odd that you can access toots via Mastadon federation, but can't connect to GitHub or some mechanism to share the code? What protocols are required then to federate? I recall WfW had TCP/IP, just about. @simonspringall I sure could FTP it out.... Git well i would need a Git client (optionally SSH) so that will be harder... the code fits on one diskette so that is probably the fastest way. @Probably my dell work laptop has coil whine while it is a terrible fact that dell ships that in premium laptop it makes it sound like a computer @dug what people see as clippy is the Microsoft Agent API… it seems i have docs on it but the demo fails.. I only find ActiveX related docs…  @maartje congratulations, you're the first person in the world that made me spill my prosecco out of my nose 🎩 👈 @maartje @felsqualle is there a working tls/ssl library for win95? That would be rad to actually fully build that client like icq was (including the cheesy sound effects of that time). I am getting nostalgic 🙂 @felsqualle @dunkelstern yes and no… there are brave people who ported modern curl and openssl or mtls to dos (with packet drivers) but not win 95 (I believe it can be done with non native dlls)… well as far as I can find. As I didn’t want to load a bunch of external code I use the IE based http handler that windows offered at the time. For TLS I host a WebOne proxy at home which does the encryption handling and converts it to http. @felsqualle @dunkelstern i do plan to make it more complete and once I have some ugly patched etc cleaned out I will put it on a diskette and put that in my laptop to upload it to GitHub @maartje @felsqualle fascinating! I learned programming with gfabasic and vb3 (first thing to do: turn off syntax check or get bombarded with popup windows) then switched to vb6 and then to linux and went with C and C++ (which isn’t so nostalgic). I would love to see a vb program again 🙂 so please upload it if you feel comfortable with the state of things 🙂 would even help out with stuff if i remember. (If wanted) @felsqualle @dunkelstern there is some code in a reply i posted 😁 @enjie nothing better than an evening with hot chocolate, floppy noises, midi playing in the background, a shark next to you and Visual Basic 6 @DukeBerlin @maartje yea, thats really great. I also like this guy with his Commodordion: https://youtu.be/EBCYvoC4muc  @bruce sadly I wanted to do this for a longer time but tonight I finally dedicated some time to it… started after lunch finished around 23:00 with a working alpha @gkorn unfortunately the JSON parser is already slow on a Pentium 1… (probably slow code….) I would love to see somebody try 😁  @maartje when I said I wanted native clients this isn't what I meant but thank you so very much @maartje This is amaaaaaazing! I need to get my Dial Up Networking server working again just for this... and other fun of course. Tempted to mail you a floppy. Super cool. @kiteless I need to see how it behaves on dial up... need to try it on my WIn98 laptop once the code works a bit better. It should give a normal notice as it used IE as HTTP driver... @Paulmd199 PRs welcome... I am not that good in VB6 and honestly do't plan to be that good 😅 @Gerwin030 @haayman (kijkt links naar de levende 386 laptop met win 3.11, de win98 laptop, de win xp desktop,...) @maartje @Gerwin030 hahaha. Ik probeer me nu voor te stellen welke computers ik allemaal gehad heb. Sommige waren best groot. No way dat ik die allemaal mocht houden @haayman @Gerwin030 Ik heb ook een klein museumpje hier maar ze krijgen allemaal liefde :blobhaj_hug: @maartje @Gerwin030 die eerste keer dat ik een harde schijf had met 200MB! Niets dan liefde @maartje - This is super cool that you made a dedicated era-appropiate application for Mastodon! But what I think is EVEN cooler is your capital choice in monitor! I use to use the smaller Phillips 107e montior and I loved the design of it and it's distinct bass-y deglossing sound when you turn it on. Brilliant little CRT way back when! 🙂 @MMusselwhite got this one from a student on the hunt for a decent CRT 😊 It is a lovely one I only cannot figure out the use of phillips ligtframe.... @maartje This is amazing! I can't wait to see more Mastodon clients for retro hardware! @richardtroupe @maartje there was a Python based client for classic MacOS in my timeline some days ago… @maartje wonderful, thanks for making me smile :) @maartje folks porting mastodon clients to retro stuff is not going to get old for me (pun intended :P) @Ronald those stickers refuse to stick it annoys me… what made the original ones stick so well 😢    @maartje but … what are you going to call it if you need to put out a patch release?  That is AMAZING. I honestly can't remember the last time I used a floppy drive that wasn't attached via USB. At least nine or ten years; longer if you don't count work. Also (just curious), why is Blåhaj such a big meme? It's suddenly everywhere. It's a stuffed shark! 😂  @maartje This is awesome, but also, the looseness of that label worries me. :oh_no: @maartje Ahhh, the sound of a disk drive is music to my ears. What's missing is the screech of a modem connecting at a whopping 33kbps! 😎 @maartje 😆 is Mastodon going to replace Doom as the thing that runs on everything just because we can? @maartje this floppy and hard disk noise is giving me anxiety. Those were not good times.   @maartje Running this over dial-up emulation, actual dial-up, or ethernet, or heck, even Wi-fi? @maartje Written in VB6, as most programs written during that era were.
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@maartje love it! :blobcatblep: